Companies claiming they got hacked and lost your coins sounds like fraud so perfect it could be called fashionable. I never believe them. If I ever experience the misfortune of a real intrusion, I declare I have been honest about the way I have managed the keys in Casascius Coins. I maintain no ability to recover or reproduce the keys, not even under limitless duress or total intrusion. Remember that trusting strangers with your coins without any recourse is, as a matter of principle, not a best practice. Don't keep coins online. Use paper wallets instead.

casascius, do you really want to have the same pump and dump again, just this time with Namecoins, because you bought loads of them cheap? I’m a bit disappointed, but I guess you want a second ferrari.

Namecoin is no different than Bitcoin, monetarily speaking, except that it’s more likely to be a bit more evenly distributed initially. In the long term, no changes though.

"Bitcoin had been transformed from an anarachistic challenge to the financial status quo, to the crypto spawn of Satan, fuelled by cut-throat greed and delusions of avarice." - MatTheCat"these people don't seem to want to stop till Bitcoin is completely destroyed and left like an old cum rag in the corner of the room." - ShroomsKit

casascius, do you really want to have the same pump and dump again, just this time with Namecoins, because you bought loads of them cheap? I’m a bit disappointed, but I guess you want a second ferrari.

Namecoin is no different than Bitcoin, monetarily speaking, except that it’s more likely to be a bit more evenly distributed initially. In the long term, no changes though.

The argument of equal distribution is out the window. Are you guys not seeing these prices?